Shankar Software

Shankar Multi-Branch Accounting Inventory Software++


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Cost of this software.
Free demo/evaluation copy.

What benefits will this software give me?

What are the different modules available?

Module NameFeatures
Branch Accounting

What is branch accounting?

If your company has more than one branch or site or warehouse, accounting for all those branches from the head office, is called branch accounting. Our software automates this process completely. Saving you lots of manual labor in controlling your branches from your head office.

How is branch accounting automated?

To automate branch accounting, take the following steps.

  • Purchase computers for each of your branches.
  • Install our software at each of your branches.
  • Purchase a DSL/broadband internet connection for your head office.

When you have taken these steps, your branches will be fully under your control. Whenever you enter any transaction or master record it will become available at the branches within seconds. Whenever anyone enters any transaction at any of the branches it will be transmitted and integrated with the headoffice data automatically and without any human command within seconds.

Branch Management
  • Fund request from branch
  • Fund transfer to branch
  • Stock request from branch
  • Stock transfer to branch
  • Stock receipt from branch
  • Create an invoice at the head office and print it at the branch
  • Enter expenses at the branch and account for it at the head office
Unified LedgersWhereas most software packages were developed with separate modules governing accounts receivable, accounts payable and the general ledger, with our software all the modules are present in a single software giving a more robust solution.
General Ledger
  • Journals
  • Automatic rollup to general ledger from other modules
  • Up-to-Date Information
  • Create Cost Centres or Departments when needed.
  • Cashbook entry and reporting
  • Handles accruals
  • Profit & Loss statements
  • Balance Sheets.
  • Fully customisable, store up to 2000 extra pieces of special information in each ledger account.
  • Both accrual and cash basis
  • Multi Company
  • Multiple Currencies
  • Multiple departments
  • Multiple profit centers
  • Flexible financial years
  • Flexible periods in a financial year
  • Able to keep all years open
  • No month and year end closing
  • Extensive predefined accounting groups
  • Quick transaction processing
  • Consolidated reports and separate reports
Accounts Payable
  • Purchase Bills
  • Cash Payment
  • Bank Payment
  • Foreign currency suppliers
  • Fully customisable, store up to 2000 extra pieces of special information in each supplier account.
  • Place orders based on previous requisitions
  • Freeform Remarks field in Supplier accounts.
  • Central Billing supported
  • Multiple contacts per supplier
  • Multiple addresses per supplier
  • Multiple subaccounts per supplier
  • Active/Inactive Suppliers
  • Automatic purchasing accounts for every Supplier
  • Fast access to vendor information
  • Multiple user defined aging intervals
Accounts Receivable
  • Sales Invoices
  • Cash Receipt
  • Bank Receipt
  • Flexible cash receipt entry
  • On demand statements
  • Fast access to customer information
  • Multiple user defined aging intervals
  • Easy write off of uncollected balances
  • Unlimited sales tax authorities
  • 100s of readymade sales tax percentage, surcharge and additional surcharge accounts
  • Ability to display all reports
  • Invoices may be entered and printed
  • Invoices may be entered after they are issued
  • Autogeneration of invoices from other modules
  • Tax automatically calculated.
  • Effortlessly reproduce invoices.
  • Full drill-down on invoices.
  • Sort transactions by any field.
  • Customisable forms using inbuild document designer.
  • Multiple Contacts per customer.
  • Receipts, Credit Notes.
  • Consolidate multiple orders with Invoices and Deliveries.
  • Flexible Discount.
  • Multiple addresses per customer
  • Multiple subaccounts per customer
  • Quick look at recent product sales.
  • Customer sales graphs.
  • ‘Suggest Order’ based on previous transactions by that customer.
  • Foreign currency customers.
  • Forward dated invoices.
  • Copy feature lets you create a new bill from an old bill without reentering item data
  • Supports free form notes and additional invoice messages
Point of Sale
  • Cash Sales
  • Cash Sales Return
Collection Management
  • Record promises of payment on specified dates to the sales invoice records.
  • Get reminded on the promised date to call again.
  • Centralized recording of notes to records ensures that all employees are aware of activity regarding that transaction.
Bills of Exchange
  • Letters of Credit
  • Bill of exchange received
  • Bill of exchange given
  • Bill discounting
Consignor Accounting
  • Consignment Goods Despatch
  • Consignment Goods Return
  • Consignment Sales
  • Consignment Sales Return
Consignee Accounting
  • Consignee Goods Received
  • Consignee Goods Returned
  • Consignee Sales
  • Consignee Sales Return
Inventory
  • Track every piece of inventory as to cost, availability, price and ultimate destination
  • Lot and serial number management
  • Office supplies Tracking
  • Spare parts tracking
  • View Stock Movement
  • Serial Number or Batch Lot Tracking
  • Free form Product Codes
  • Free form Description field
  • Gives alternate part numbers
  • Handles Bin Locations
  • Weighted average, FIFO or standard costing
  • Product Groups
  • Decimal quantities
  • Sales and purchase units of measure can differ
  • Maintain quantities in count and weight and volume
  • Track different attributes like size, color, style, manufacturer etc
  • Extensive predefined list of billable and non-billable units.
  • Predefined billable units for count, length, weight, volume, area, energy, data and time.
Sales Orders
  • Due dates per Line item
  • Due date tracking for sales orders
  • Take orders by weight and track deliveries by numbers.
Purchase Orders
  • Due dates per line item
  • Shipping address per line item
  • Order by weight and track receipt in numbers.
Fixed Assets
  • Gross Block
  • Depreciation
  • Net Block
  • Track depreciation ledger separately from accounting ledger
Bar coding
  • Print Bar Codes
  • Scan bar codes
  • Page Scan bar codes
  • Print barcoded inventory tags
  • Print barcoded employee photo ID cards
  • Barcoded attendance recording
  • All 1D barcode types supported for printing/scanning
  • 2D barcodes supported for scanning
Business Intelligence
  • Create customized reports showing specific business analysis summaries.
Competitor Intelligence
  • Keep track of competitors
  • Keep a list of your competitors
  • Builtin competitor groups - Nearby competitors, Internet competitors, Competitors in this city/state/country.
  • Record and track competitor's marketing campaigns
  • Record and track competitor's product lines, product features and versions
  • Record and track competitor's product pricing
Report Writer
  • Simple to create new reports, just specify what fields or calculation you want in each column.
  • Pivoted reports - Create the most powerful transformation of reports
  • Business graphics - Charts and graphs
  • Vertical and horizontal comparison charts
  • Simple arithmetic functions, sum, average, count
  • Operators +,-,/,*,()
  • Mathematical functions - cos, sin, tan, exp, log10, log, sqrt, acos, asin, atan, pow
  • Boolean functions - and, or, true, false
  • Date functions - dateof, monthof, yearof, monthofyear, dayofyear, daysinmonth
  • Ad Hoc query system
  • Does not require any programming skills
Contact Management
  • Multiple contacts per customer
  • Multiple contacts per vendor
  • Multiple contacts per employee
  • Multiple contacts per branch
Multi Company
  • Keep track of subsidary companies.
  • Keep track of inventory separately for each subsidary.
  • Intercompany transactions.
  • Keep balances of customers and vendors for each company separately.
  • Automatic posting of due to and due from amounts when an invoice of one company is adjusted against a payment of another company.
Multi Currency
  • All nation's currencies built in.
  • Euro support.
  • Daily currency exchange rate table.
  • Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Currencies in Ounces and Grams.
  • Maintain balances in many currencies separately for any account.
  • Track realized gain and unrealized gain/loss.
Physical Inventory
  • Physical Goods Receipt
  • Physical Goods Despatch
  • Physical Inventory Adjustment
Inventory Control
  • Cyclical Inventory Checking
  • Random Inventory Checking
  • ABC Inventory Checking
  • VED Inventory Checking
Bank Reconcillation
  • Receipt Cleared
  • Payment Cleared
  • Cash Deposit
  • Cash Withdrawal
  • Bank Charges
Cash Management
  • Predefined cash @ counter accounts for 100 counters. You can create more if you wish.
  • Vault Cash Tracking
  • Cash in hand Tracking
  • Coins and notes tracking. For every transaction involving cash, enter the count of different denominations of coins and notes received and given back.
  • Know accurately how much cash you have and in what denominations.
  • Cash inventory calendar for each denomination.
  • Predefined denomination fields covering all the currencies of the world like 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.25, 0.50, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100, 200, 250, 500, 1000 etc.
  • Use the same accounts for all the branches and subsidary firms. Balances maintained separately for each branch/firm/currency for each account. No need to create separate cash accounts.
  • All the currencies of the world built in to the software.
  • Euro support.
  • Automatic Realized/Unrealized gain/loss calculation for cash transactions and cash on hand.
  • FASB cash flow statement.
Sales Return Management  
Purchase Return Management  
Tender Management
  • Tender Invitation
  • Bid Received
  • Tender Approval
  • Earnest Money Deposit and Refund
Sub Contractor Management
  • Sub Contract Order
  • Goods Delivery to Contractor
  • Goods Receipt from Contractor
  • Dunning Letters to Contractor
Freight Management
  • Freight Bill
  • Lorry Receipt Notes
Pricing Management
  • Contract Pricing
  • Quantity Contracts
  • Automatic Pricing Updates
  • Component Pricing
  • Rental Pricing
  • Seasonal Pricing
  • 5 level Volume Discounts
Delivery Management
  • Delivery Scheduling
  • Delivery Route Management
  • Van Stock Management
Third Party Indenting
  • Drop Ship PO
  • Customer To Supplier Indent
  • Supplier To Customer Delivery Tracking
  • Customer To Supplier Payment Tracking
  • Commision Debit Notes To Customer
Quotation Management
  • Customer Quotations
  • 5 level quantity based quoting
Appraisal Management
  • Jewellery and other Item Appraisals
    Attach photos to transactions and print them
Layaway Management
  • Layaway order
  • Layaway Reminders
  • Layaway receipts
  • Layaway cancel
  • Layaway delivery
Show/Exhibition Management
  • Stock Issue to Show
  • Stock Receipt from Show
  • Stock Loss at Show
Gift Certificates Management
  • Issue Gift Certificates
  • Redeem Gift Certificates
  • Automatic Gift Certificate Expiry
CMail + Alerts
  • Financial Alerts
  • Stock Alerts
  • Transaction Alerts
  • Intra Store Mail
Audit Trails
  • Every change to the database is recorded with information as to who did the change, what was changed, when it was changed, where it was changed from and how it was changed.
  • Temporal view. You can see how a record looked like in the past by reversing the changes.
Rental Management
  • Rental Booking
  • Automatic Rental Pricing
  • Items Lent Out Tracking
  • Items Returned Tracking
  • Rented Items Loss Tracking
  • Schedule Movement of Rented Goods from customer to customer or warehouse
Standard Costing
  • Enter standard costs for items and services for automatic calculation of gross profit.
  • Standard costing calculates gross profit for each and every line item of every invoice.
  • Revise standard costs on a per branch basis.
  • Compare standard costs with actual costs.
  • Automatic posting of cost variance between standard costs and actual costs.
Bill of materials  
Manufacturing  
Work Order Management  
Project Management  
Payroll Management  
Warehouse Management
  • Picking Sheets
  • Return To Vendor Zones
  • Picking, Packing and Shipping Zones
  • Cross Docking
Workflow Management  
Human Resource Management  
Recruitment  
Time and Attendance  
Dock Management  
Property Management  
Fleet Management
  • Fleet Scheduling
Credit Management
  • Setup customer credlit limits
  • Setup vendor credit limits
  • Automatically stop order taking for customers over credit limit
  • Customers over credit limit report
  • Setup credit limits for each customer sub account and a total limit for the entire company
  • Customer over credit limit alert
  • Customer back within credit limit alert
Warranty Management
  • Serial Number Tracking
Task Management  
Service Call Management  
Service Management  
Scheduling  
Form Designer Tool  
Custom Fields  
Data Import  
Data Export  
Recurring Transactions  
Multi lingual Database
  • Enter customer names in any or all languages at the same time.
  • Print invoices in customer specific languages.
  • Interface language is English.
  • Type your mother tongue using english pronunciation with inbuilt phonetic transliteration enabled fields.

      With this software you can type your mother tongue by typing the pronounciation in english.
      You can also type accented letters very easily.

      What You typeHow it appears on screenLanguage
      fi ayyu waqt taseeru?picture of Arabic TextArabic
      thamizh ezhuthinaenpicture of tamil textTamil
      namaste, tum koun ho? picture of hindi textHindi
      neeru kudi picture of kannada textKannada
      Franc&,ais ho^tepicture of french textTyping French using English keyboard
    • Also supported other languages not shown here
  • Full support for display and printing of right to left languages.
  • Full unicode support. All text is stored in UTF-16.
  • Text rendered in HTML, so text automatically reflows without overlap or truncation to accomodate different font sizes required for different languages.
  • Complex script display and printing support.
  • Some of the complex scripts supported by this software
    Right to left scripts: Arabic, Persian, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew

    Central: Armenian

    Cyrillic: Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Azerbaijani

    European: French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Basque, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, West, East, Central, Scandinavian, Greek, Turkish and more

    Indian (North): Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Punjabi (Gurmukhi,Gurmuki), Gujarati

    Indian (South): Tamil (Thamizh), Kannada

How much does it cost?

  1. Hardware Requirements

    When two or more computers are connected in a network, the main computer(s) on which the database is stored is called the server and the other computers are called clients or users.

    SoftwareProcessorRAMOS
    Server Computers64 Bit ComputerSee Note 1 BelowWindows XP 64 bit or Vista 64 bit
    Client ComputersPentium IV256 MBWindows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
    Demo VersionAny old computer that you have gotWindows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

    Note 1: RAM required is calculated using the number of transactions in your business. For every 1 million transactions 2 GB of RAM is required. The average business generates much less than ten thousand transactions per year. Plan to use the software and computer for ten years before upgrading. So that will become hundred thousand transactions for ten years. So the average business will require 512 MB. If your business will generate more than one hundred thousand transactions you must put 2 GB of RAM for every 1 million transactions for the server computer(s).

    You can use a computer as both client and server though for best performance it is recommended to put dedicated servers.

  2. What database do I have to buy for this software?

    • You dont have to buy any other database like MS-Access or MS-SQL or oracle etc to use this software.
    • The software runs on Veena HAT RDBMS - An Accounting Tree Relational Database Management system. This DB engine is included within the software for no extra cost.
  3. Price of the software license

    • The price of the software license is:
      1 X=
      INR.
      CapacityPriceSuitable for:Choose your currency
      (approximate, for reference only)

      Compact INR 10,80,000For small-mid size companies.
      Medium INR 43,20,000For medium - large companies.
      LargeAround INR 1,72,80,000.
      Send us your RFP for a quote
      For large companies.
      EnterpriseSend us your RFP for a quoteFor Corporate Enterprises.

      You can use the software in any number of computers at any number of branches of the same company.
  4. Head office must have DSL or broadband internet connection. Branch offices can use dialup.
  5. To purchase this software first contact us for the evaluation copy below.
  6. The single software contains all the modules.
  7. You will receive the software by downloading it from the website. Every thing is done online.

How can I get a demo or evaluation copy?

  1. The demo requires Windows 2000 or XP or 2003 and a computer with atleast 128 MB of RAM. You will need two computers and a broadband internet connection if you want to test branch synchronization features.
  2. The demo will run on any old computer that you have got now. But when you purchase the software you must get a 64 Bit computer and XP 64 bit or Vista 64 bit for the server computer(s).
  3. In the form below enter your name, company name, industry, number of branches, principal address and your email address (in the email type $ instead of @). Also give an alternative email address in case we are not able to contact the first address. The evaluation copy is free and we will send you the download link on receipt of your message and after we confirm with you (by calling your number and emailing you) that you did indeed send this message.

    We reply to each and every enquiry. If you don't hear from us within 24 hours it means that your email could not be contacted (This has happened a lot of times). Don't hesitate to resubmit your information with a different email. Sometimes our mail may land in your bulk/junk/spam folder. To prevent this add girish@shankar-software.org to your address book or scan your bulk folder for an email with subject containing accounting software.

  4. In the demo copy you can create only upto 100,000 records. But the 64 bit example company will contain more than a million items, million customer records, 100000 vendors, 100000 employee records and 1.2 million transactions spanning ten years. The 32 bit example company will contain only a few thousand accounts and 45000 transactions because of the limitations of 32 bit architecture.

Program Copyright (c) 1994-2008. All Rights Reserved.

Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

Copyright (C) for compression routines 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).

This product includes software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)

This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

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